A heartbroken Brooklyn mom is trying to stop a local hospital from pulling the plug on her brain-dead 3-year-old child, begging for more time so that she can come to grips with the awful reality.

Only six days after Brookdale University Medical Center declared Patricia Joseph brain dead, doctors told her mother, Marie, that they were going to pull the plug – prompting her to get an emergency court order.

“All I’m saying is that I want my daughter to be able to go on her own,” said a tearful Marie Joseph, 25.

“I just want my daughter to live for a few more days, because when she is gone, she is gone forever, and I’m never going to see her again.”

State law allows hospitals to declare people dead when they meet medical standards for brain death, but requires hospitals to have a plan for “reasonable accommodation” to the next of kin’s religious or moral objections. In a similar case in 1989, a hospital was found to have the authority to take an infant off life support over the parents’ objections.

Joseph took Patricia to Jamaica Hospital on Dec. 16 to get her checked for leg pains. Doctors there transferred the girl, who suffers from sickle-cell anemia, to Brookdale, where she was given morphine and a blood transfusion.

The next day, she went into a coma-like state after doctors believe she had stroke, and on Dec. 18, doctors placed her on a ventilator. Four days before Christmas, Brookdale declared Patricia brain dead, drew up a death certificate and gave Joseph the bad news.

“They came to me every day,” Joseph said. “They told me that they did not need my permission, and that they were just letting me know. It was thanks to one of the doctors that they gave me a few days.”

A panicked Joseph contacted lawyer Keith Sullivan, who got a temporary restraining order at 1 a.m. yesterday after discussions with the hospital broke down.

He was back in court yesterday afternoon asking that the order be extended.

Knipel heard testimony from a doctor, Mayank Shukla, who conceded that Joseph never gave the green light.

“She never said ‘OK,’ ” Shukla said. “But she understood the process. She wanted more time, and we were giving her more time.”

Knipel adjourned proceedings until the new year, keeping the existing stay in effect until then.

A spokesman for the hospital, Michael Hinck, said Brookdale had made every effort to come to an agreement with Joseph during the six days after the girl was declared brain dead. He noted that staff had even facilitated an in-room baptism.

“The hospital is trying to be as sympathetic as possible and make as best an accommodation as possible,” Hinck said.